Re: Defense against the Darknet
"[...] "Queen's English" [...]"
Which queen? The survival of English has been down to it being a flexible mongrel language. It adapts and borrows whenever necessary or fashionable. You can rearrange the grammar and conjugations - and it still makes sense.
My neighbours' 4 year old was raised with a mother tongue of Polish. Pre-school has now immersed him in English. It is interesting to hear the way he uses it and gradually discovers concepts. Apparently his 9 year old brother still speaks Polish - but now often with an English word order.
A Japanese colleague spent a couple of years in the UK. On returning to Japan his daughter spoke Japanese with a Manchester accent.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
